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#322 — Predicting Reality

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Controlled Hallucination of Predictions

Theory is that we mostly consciously experience our predictions and are continually revising them in concert with attending to sensory inputs. Or is it that all we experience is our predictions and that the sensory input is really always unconsciously modifying our predictions? And that's that is it's it's it has on all Seth called a controlled hallucination, but it's the control component is always in happening in the dark. Yes, that's the way I see it.

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